loaded with pretty clusters of flowers in May and June, and 
covering to a great extent the gallery of the Palm House. 
Dezscr. Scandent, much branched; dranches densely clothed 
with patent hairs, which become reddish in drying. Leaves on 
shortish hairy foot-stalks, oblong-ovate, hairy on both sides, 
almost velutinous, mucronato-acuminate at the point, cordate at 
the base, with a deep but closed sinus. Peduncles axillary, 
solitary, at first flowering shorter than the leaves, afterwards 
elongated, hairy, bearing a many-flowered umbel with hairy 
pedicels. Calyx red, hairy : sepals narrow, lanceolate-acuminate, 
as long as the corolla. Corolla white, with a deep green radiating 
ring at the base: /odes spreading, ovato-rotundate, obtuse, 
longitudinally plaited in the middle. odes of the staminal 
crown rounded, fleshy. W. J. H. 
Curr. A tropical soft-wooded twining plant, of rapid and 
extensive growth, well adapted to cover trellis-work, pillars, &c., 
and recommending itself by its numerous bunches of flowers, 
and in not being subject to insects. Where it is required to 
cover a great space it should be planted in a mixture of loam 
and peat, about eighteen inches in depth, and well drained. 
It may also be grown in a pot, and trained up the rafters of the 
house, or on a wire trellis fixed to the pot; and by occasionally 
stopping the leading shoots it may be made to flower abundantly. 
It-1s readily increased by cuttings, placed in bottom heat under 
a bell glass. J. 8. : 
Fig. 1. Staminal crown :—magnified. 
